Value Creation for Owners and Directors A Practical Guide on How to Lead your Business

This book deals with a much understudied and poorly understood aspect of business: the role of owners and boards in value creation. While there is abundant guidance on value creation for publicly listed firms and their managers, the role played by owners, and their corporate directors, in value crea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Massa, Massimo, Taraporevala, Kai (Author), Van der Heyden, Ludo (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Corporate Ownership
  • Part I Hardware: A Value Creation Framework
  • 2 The Primacy of an Owner’s Mission
  • 3 The Board of Directors: Governing the Mission
  • 4 The CEO and the Executive Team: Responsible for Executing the Mission
  • 5 Goals, Strategies, and Fundamentals
  • 6Fundamentals: Financing and Risk
  • 7 Control and the Corporate Board
  • 8 Obsolescence and Counterfactual Thinking
  • 9 MGSF and the Three Boards
  • Part II Software: Effective Collaborative Processes and the Need to Manage Self
  • 10 Delusions, Confusion, and Biases
  • 11 Biases in Action and How High-PerformanceTeams Address Them
  • 12 Fair Process Leadership: The Path to Positive and Collaborative Dynamics for Owners and Their Directors
  • 13 Fair Process Leadership Illustrated: Applications to Owners, Board Members, and Executives
  • Part III Humanware: Owners as Leaders and Value Creators
  • 14 Profiles in Ownership
  • 15 Transitioning to Ownership and Developing as Owner
  • 16 Ownership in the Twenty-First Century: Closing Thoughts